Baltimore County educators rallied Monday night to ask the school district to act fast in order to slow a wave of resignations. Cindy Sexton, president of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County, said Nov. 28 is the final scheduled meeting between union and Baltimore County Public Schools bargaining teams, and that the two sides are not yet actively engaged in over half the union’s demands for a new agreement for next school year. The current bargaining agreement expires at the end of June.

The Thanksgiving table can be a battlefield. For all the familial love and intimacy that can come with the holiday, it can put those who have chosen Baltimore as their homes on a collision course with “concerned” and “well-meaning” family members dead set on trashing our beautiful city. This year, we’re helping cut down on the time you have to spend preparing for combat. Call it data as conversational ammo.

A line of cars twisted and turned around the parking lot of Harry Grove Stadium on Tuesday, with people in ponchos and rain jackets passing bags of food and turkey to people in the cars. The City of Frederick’s Department of Housing and Human Services’ turkey distribution event has been going on for decades, said Michele Ott, the assistant director of Community Action Agency, which is a division of the department.

Maryland state lawmakers are proposing a new bill requiring sellers to notify potential homeowners of any Superfund site near a residential property and the associated risks. The bill, which state Sen. Karen Lewis Young and Del. Kris Fair plan to file, would require that addendum for all sales contracts on residential properties within 0.5 miles of a Superfund site across the state.

Carroll County’s Triple-A bond rating from three independent credit agencies resulted in the county securing a low interest rate of 3.63% during this year’s bond sale. Carroll County Comptroller Jenny Hobbs said the interest rate was lower than last year’s rate of 3.79% and was somewhat unexpected. “I guess the [financial] markets are moving,” Hobbs said to commissioners on Nov. 16.

A major donor is suing the One Love Foundation, claiming that the Baltimore-based nonprofit, which has educated 2 million young people about relationship violence, has breached an agreement and is in “disarray” due to the actions of one of its founders. The lawsuit asserts that founder Sharon Love fought against One Love’s “outreach to LGBTQ and minority communities” and threatened to fire board members who disagreed with her, prompting nearly all board members and the organization’s CEO to resign earlier this year.

MTA Administrator Holly Arnold didn’t mince words. With information panels proudly displayed around an expansive exhibition room, Arnold acknowledged that she’s gotten a clear answer to the question of what many Baltimoreans want the future Red Line to be. “There’s a strong preference for light rail” over Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, Arnold said, taking a break from mingling with Baltimore residents inside the University of Maryland’s downtown School of Nursing building.

Titan Hospitality Group will open a restaurant in North Baltimore next year, marking its first expansion into the city. The Anne Arundel County-based group will open a restaurant called The Barn & Lodge within the Rotunda development in Hampden, Titan CEO James King said Tuesday. The move into the North Baltimore center owned by MCB Real Estate is the latest expansion for Titan, which reopened a restaurant in Annapolis this week and started construction on another in Columbia.

Baltimore mayoral candidate Sheila Dixon ended a campaign event at a bar early on Monday night, after a shooting one block away left two men injured. The former mayor was addressing a small crowd at Maceo’s, a neighborhood bar near North Avenue, about her 2024 mayoral platform. Mondays are a busy night for the tavern, where neighborhood residents watch football and play cards during commercial breaks. The Democrat said the bar owner had invited her to speak.

Half a dozen free-range chickens were scratching on a narrow patch of grass at a farm in Potomac Monday afternoon, looking for insects, seeds and other things to eat. The chickens, with names like Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe, seemed happily oblivious to the four cloth chicken dolls stuffed into a cage on the grass before them. But for the humans gathered at Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary, the visual made for a stark tableau.